
Their first contact? August Moriarty (formerly Charlotte’s obsession, currently believed by most to be dead), whose powerful family has been ripping off famous paintings for the last hundred years. The game is afoot once again, and Charlotte is single-minded in her pursuit.

On top of everything else, Holmes and Watson could be becoming more than friends-but still, the darkness in Charlotte’s past is a wall between them.Ī distraction arises soon enough, because Charlotte’s beloved uncle Leander goes missing from the estate-after being oddly private about his latest assignment in a German art forgery ring. But Charlotte isn’t the only Holmes with secrets, and the mood at her family’s Sussex estate is palpably tense. Jamie Watson and Charlotte Holmes are looking for a winter-break reprieve after a fall semester that almost got them killed. No one is ever what or who they seem.Watson and Holmes: A match made in disaster. There are new characters, a kidnapping, poison, art fraud, narrow escapes, danger, drama, and a final twist with a heap of delicious, complex sleuthing that will keep readers guessing until the end. “This delightful sequel introduces a mystery on a grander scale with much higher stakes while staying true to the flavor of an original Sir Arthur Conan Doyle story. So begins a dangerous race through the gritty underground scene in Berlin and glittering art houses in Prague, where Holmes and Watson discover that this complicated case might change everything they know about their families, themselves, and each other. When Charlotte?s beloved Uncle Leander goes missing from the Holmes estate?after being oddly private about his latest assignment in a German art forgery ring?the game is afoot once again, and Charlotte throws herself into a search for answers.

But nothing about their time off is proving simple, including Holmes and Watson?s growing feelings for each other.

Jamie and Charlotte are looking for a winter break reprieve in Sussex after a fall semester that almost got them killed. In the second brilliant, action-packed book in the Charlotte Holmes series, Jamie Watson and Charlotte Holmes are in a chase across Europe to untangle a web of shocking truths about the Holmes and Moriarty families.
